As I wrote last week<\/a>, it is inherently interesting when someone loses a job. In the case of former Guardian <\/em>columnist Suzanne Moore she left of her own choosing, but only under pressure from colleagues who objected to her views in the great trans debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doubtless some of Moore’s critics are glad that she has exited, and I suspect Moore feels relief too. Today she has laid out the saga<\/a> in UnHerd<\/em>, placed within her own history in journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n The piece is worth reading in full, although it will take you a while. What’s notable is Moore’s sense that she is a perennial outsider, partly as a woman, partly as a gender-critical feminist, partly as a non-grad, and partly as a working class girl in a middle class world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The central point in Moore’s break-up with the Guardian <\/em>is her contention that natal females have distinct political interests from trans women. Even though I’m not a feminist this seems self-evidently true to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is of course a prevailing mindset among progressives that all minorities, whether ethnic, sexual, economic or whatever else, have to band together to gang up on the white, straight rich, able-bodied men who run the country. This is sensible politics in a democratic country, but it fails when constituents in this coalition realise they disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n